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  • July 3, 2013 | National Law Journal

    IN BRIEF: Quattrone Center

    The University of Pennsyl­vania Law School is launching a center dedicated to policy and research of the U.S. criminal justice system with the help of a $15 million donation from inv

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  • May 7, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Top Partner Quits BigLaw for Chinese Firm

    Top Clifford Chance capital markets partner Rupert Li has left the Magic Circle firm to join Beijing’s King & Wood as international managing partner. Li, a former partner in Cliff

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  • March 7, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Dewey & LeBoeuf Revenues, PPP Edge Higher

    Dewey & LeBoeuf announced that revenues and profits were both up slightly in 2011. Revenues grew by 2.8 percent, but expenses increased, the firm noted. Profits per equity partner posted

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  • September 22, 2010 | The Recorder

    Orrick Team Helps Recurrent Energy With Sale to Japan's Sharp Corp.

    SAN FRANCISCO — Sharp Corporation, Japan's biggest maker of solar panels, has agreed to buy San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy in an all-cash deal worth up to $305 million. Sharp

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  • December 1, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    Too Big for Their Britches?

    Just a few years ago, the Abbar family of Saudi Arabia could point to at least $383 million in investments managed by Citigroup Inc. Patriarch Abdullah Abbar and his son Ghazi had bui

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  • November 7, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Sullivan & Cromwell Is Latest Firm to Match Bonuses

    Sullivan & Cromwell on Monday became the latest firm to match the bonus range announced last week by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which said it would pay both year-end and one-time "special" bo

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  • October 24, 2007 | The Recorder

    Key Heller Partners Jump Ship

    The fabric of Heller Ehrman is showing some wear and tear.Just weeks after 65 staff were laid off across the firm, two leading and loyal partners have left for rival firms.Patricia Gi

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  • May 26, 2005 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Willkie Farr and Milbank Tweed In $9.4 Billion Utilities Merger MidAmerican Holdings Company agreed Tuesday to acquire Portland, Ore.'s PacifiCorp from Scot

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  • July 2, 2009 | New York Law Journal

    New Deals

    Milbank, Gibson, Davis Polk Counsel Merger of Consultancies In a rare public-private merger of equals, Towers, Perrin, Foster & Crosby struck a deal to join fo

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  • October 1, 2008 | The American Lawyer

    Metal Heads

    Never mind that Rio Tinto plc didn't want BHP Billiton to take it over. The $164 billion hostile bid itself signaled that something was changing in the mining sector. The bid is more tha

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